Whats Wrong with my hard drive?

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01WS6

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i turn on my pc and the bios works fine but then the window pops up saying " Start windows normally" or " use last known working setting"
so i have clicked both and as soon as i click them the litte windows load bar start, gets about 3/4 the way done then the computer re-boots idk whats wrong
i have vista working on this pc befor
 
Why do you assume it's your hard drive? Is it making any clicking noise? Are you overlocking? Have you changed any settings? Do you have anti-virus protection? Any more detailed information would help out a lot, as just saying 'My computer wont boot into Windows' leaves us with about a million different things it could be.
 
yes my harddrive makes a clicking noise that it never did befor , with that i think i have a hard drive failure :/
 
Download the diagnostic utilities from the drive manufacturers site and run them... see what they come up with.

 
yes my harddrive makes a clicking noise that it never did befor , with that i think i have a hard drive failure :/
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Clicking noises are never good for a hard drive. I'd say take it out and put it in another computer. If it doesn't work in the other computer, and still makes a clicking noise, it's probably dead.
 
It could be hard drive failure or an accidental write to the wrong part of the disk surface.
If the format gets messed up, you will hear clicking as the drive constantly retries to track correctly.
As the format is just data on the drive, it can get messed up in the same way data can corrupt, this is repairable.
I have seen this many times and I have fixed a few drives that clicked very badly and were considered dead!

The tools to use are Spinwrite and HDD Regenerator.
 
EQTakeOffense said:
Clicking noises are never good for a hard drive. I'd say take it out and put it in another computer. If it doesn't work in the other computer, and still makes a clicking noise, it's probably dead.
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The clicking noises are "normal" they are the drive calibrating itself. The problem is the drive will calibrate itself after a read failure, so if it is happening constantly then there is something wrong with the drive.

But the occasional click is "normal"
 
and how would i download a program to see if my drive is ok if i cant boot into windows?
 
01WS6 said:
and how would i download a program to see if my drive is ok if i cant boot into windows?
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You download them on another PC. Many hard drive manufacturers offer bootable diagnostic software that do NOT require windows in order to run. So you can download the bootable diagnostic software, boot from it and run diagnostic tests, all without installing anything OR requiring Windows.

Speaking of hard drive manufactures, who is the manufacturer of your hard drive?
 
hytochi i think thats how you spell it

and i'm on a laptop currently
 
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